[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-08 Thread Twayne
In news:4dc016d7.8060...@gmail.com, Francis Dollarhyde francis.f.dollarh...@gmail.com typed: I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a blank page. The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 02:26, Twayne twa...@twaynesdomain.com wrote: This might be a long shot, but I recently ran into a similar situation. It turned out the user had sent it with windows Live Mail. When I tried out Live Mail, it was all completely readable.   Guess which mail client I'll

[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-05 Thread plino
Could this be simply because LibO (and OOo) is not handling correctly windows OLE objects in the docx format? See my post on the previous page (on the nabble site for this topic) about Equations. -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-05 Thread NoOp
On 05/05/2011 12:48 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 05/05/2011 08:31, Dotan Cohen wrote: Are you suggesting that LO/OOo will not display images in a text box, but that is a valid MSO docx feature? Just tried it with a document I created in Word 2007. Looks like this is bug in LO. It

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 14:08, plino pedl...@gmail.com wrote: Dotan, Well, allow me to retort (as a famous movie character said) :) LibreOffice IS fully compatible in the sense that it will open any MS Office file. HOWEVER files created in MS Office may not look exactly the same (or some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-04 Thread Tom Davies
be anything. Regards from Tom :) From: plino pedl...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 4 May, 2011 12:08:20 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read Dotan, Well, allow me to retort (as a famous movie character said) :) LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 04/05/2011 12:54, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There does seem to have been a recent change somewhere that is creating problems with docX. I don't seem to have many problems opening docx files I have created in LO 3.3.2 - the problem with THIS particular file, having opened it in MS Word 2007,

[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read

2011-05-04 Thread NoOp
On 05/02/2011 02:10 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a blank page. The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the latest